Blog like a tortoise
This post by Brian Krogsgard on his personal blog is a great reminder that … Read more
The hate and vitriol of WordPress
Tom McFarlin posted a great article today on the “hate and vitriol of WordPress.” … Read more
Why post formats should be plugin territory
A thought-provoking piece by Morten Rand-Hendriksen on why post formats belong in a plugin, rather … Read more
Don’t use template_redirect to load an alternative template file
A short post by Mark Jaquith explaining why you should use the template_include hook … Read more
Yoast enters the WordPress theme market
Joost de Valk has announced his company (Yoast) have released three Genesis Child Themes, … Read more
WooCommerce 2.1 Released
WooThemes announced the release of WooCommerce 2.1 “Peppy Penguin” today. Major changes include a … Read more
Debug Bar Slow Actions
Konstantin Kovshenin announced a new plugin called Debug Bar Slow Actions, an extension for the … Read more
The qualities of a great WordPress contributor
Andrew Nacin, one of the lead developers of WordPress, posted an excellent read on how … Read more
Why we don’t use a CDN: A story about SPDY and SSL
A great post from Zack Tollman at The Theme Foundry on why defaulting to … Read more
VelocityPage by Mark Jaquith
Mark Jaquith just announced a new plugin called VelocityPage. VelocityPage is a WordPress plugin that … Read more
The dire state of WordPress
A (reasoned) criticism of the architecture of WordPress, and how it should be fixed.
WordPress Timthumb Alternative
An alternative to Timthumb that includes back compat for <3.5, and a separate function … Read more
Automattic (via Code Poet) promotes Envato properties. Should they?
In this post on Code Poet (which is an Automattic site or “shindig”), the … Read more
If you store WordPress code on Github think about your wp-config.php
tl;dr – put wp-config.php in your .gitignore file!
